The Power of Gray - The Photoshop: Professional Retouching and Compositing Tips, Tricks, and Techniques - page 109

lighting and Photoshop to transform a modern hotel bedroom into an ancient castle cham-
ber.
1. With the out-of-camera file open in Photoshop, use the Quick Selection tool to
make a selection of the walls behind our two characters ( Figure 2.33 ) .
Figure 2.33
2. Save the selection for future use, as covered in Chapter 1 , by going to Select >
Save Selection. Name the selection cutout , and click OK.
3. We now need to remove elements from the back wall. We'll use the Clone Stamp
tool to do this. To prevent us from accidentally cloning over other areas, load the
cutout selection by going to Select > Load Selection. From the channel menu,
choose cutout ( Figure 2.34 ) .